Our impact at Scrummi

Last year alone, Scummi reduced the hair and beauty industry’s impact on the environment by more than 38 MILLION litres of chemically contaminated water and 2729 tons of C02 emissions.
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A tale of two towels…

Let’s start with cotton… Did you know that according to the World Wildlife Fund, cotton is environmentally UNSUSTAINABLE?

Cotton is one of the thirstiest crops out there. It needs lots of water, fertilisers, and pesticides—harming wildlife, polluting water, and damaging soil.

To make things worse, many salon products mix cotton with plastic fibres that shed billions of microplastics into our water every time they’re washed.

Washing conventional cotton towels requires huge amounts of :

  • Energy (electricity, gas)
  • Water
  • Chemicals
  • Staff time

Compare that to Scrummi biodegradable towels

Our towels? Grown the right way—responsibly sourced from FSC/PEFC-certified European forests. Even better? For every 1,000 towels, they soak up 39kg of CO₂ as they grow.

We use Veocel™ wood-based fibres for max efficiency and a lighter footprint, and 70% of our products are made right here in the UK under strict environmental standards.

Delivered carbon-neutrally to your salon or spa, no laundry chemicals needed—good news for nature and your team.

How we make a scrummi

Scrummi products are made from sustainably sourced wood from predominantly European sources.
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Sourcing Materials

Sourcing Materials

Wood supplies come from forestry operations that are certified according to recognised sustainability criteria, such as the FSC® and PEFC™ standards. Austria is the biggest wood contributor of fibres for Scrummi production. The yearly volume of wood regrowth in certified Austrian forests is 10 million cubic metres, higher than the wood quantities harvested per year. Scrummi verifies the source of all products back through the fibre manufacturer and wood source to ensure our goods do not contain wood from ancient forests or fibre from polluting factories. Central Europe ensures compliance with this forestry principle.
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Development

Development

Cellulose from wood is used to produce fibres Scrummi binds these together to make their products, applying innovative and sustainable processes for eco-conscious manufacturing.
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Binding the materials

Binding the materials

The Scrummi fibres are then bound together using high-pressured jets of water. No chemicals, additives, or binders are used in the manufacturing process. The amount of water used in the creation of each individual Scrummi towel is approximately 35ml and 96% per cent of this water is recycled back into the system through a microbiological filtration process.
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Manufacturing

Manufacturing

The energy used in the entire lifecycle of a Scrummi Towel including its manufacture is 90% less than the energy used by a washing machine to clean a single cotton towel.
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Quality & Packaging

Quality & Packaging

Every Scrummi product is put through its paces to make sure it’s tough, reliable, and totally safe—because we don’t settle for anything less.
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Back to the earth

Back to the earth

At the end of a Scrummi product’s life cycle, it fully biodegrades in about 100 days. Decomposing back into its original components of CO2 and water and preparing the ground for new growth. Scrummi is independently tested and the results show our products biodegrade faster than a range of papers and cards and are close runners up to food waste in the time they take to fully decompose.

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